WALTON Casuals produced a feeble home performance as they were beaten 3-0 by Ashford Town on Saturday.

The result was Casuals third defeat in a row and leaves them second from bottom of Ryman Division One South.

The home side were second best throughout and struggled to threaten the Ashford goal.

Casuals were pressed back in their half for the opening quarter of an hour as the visitors won a succession of corners that fully tested goalkeeper Craig Bradshaw’s ability to defend his six yard area.

The early pressure finally told in the 17th minute when a long Jimmy Elford cross was met by a back post header from Danny Lye.

The home side responded by showing more attacking endeavour but their final passes and crosses into the Ashford penalty area too often went wide of their targets.

It was not until the half hour mark that Casuals had a clear chance on goal, centre back Joe Hammond failing to make a clean connection with an in-swinging corner.

Either side then had chances to score with first Paul Jones forcing a save from Bradshaw after beating the offside trap, before it was the turn of Ashford goalkeeper Seb Barton to dive at the feet of striker Luke Fontana.

However, much of the game’s momentum was with the visitors and they doubled their lead on the stroke of half time when Sean Ray tapped home Ryan Briggs’ cross.

Ashford made sure of the points midway through the second half when Mitchell Sherwood slotted home from the penalty spot after a foul by Jordan McCarthy .